At Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:58:05 +0100,
Michael Banck wrote:
> 1. It's sort of a hack. See
> http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/marcus_azeem_console_login.txt for some
> discussion on how this should be done properly. It also means running
> e.g. xdm will be painful/not possible as the Hurd console gets started
> /after/ /etc/rc2.d/ is being run. However, it's the only choice we have
> currently which does not involve some non-trivial coding.
Why? What non-trivial coding are you talking about? Daemonizing the
console client seems pretty trivial to me, and that's all that is
really required. The loop can be in a shell script in /etc/rc2.d/...,
even if it doesn't break out if it respawns too fast, in a first
version.
You must understand I am really confused here. I have seen several
people involved in this, and they all hack on and struggle with
runttys like mad, and I have never understood this. What is the
problem in running the console-client as a normal daemon like any
other daemon?
Thanks,
Marcus